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Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 45

But when he got over the boat, and wanted to pounce upon them and carry off the princess, the huntsman took up his bow and shot him straight through the heart so that he fell down dead.

Who acts: beast, huntsman · What happens: get, want, pounce, carry off, take up, shoot · To what, where: boat, princess, bow, beast, heart

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, huntsman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

ccadvmodnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctccmarkxcompcaseoblccconjcompound:prtdetobjpunctdetnsubjparataxiscompound:prtnmod:possobjccconjobjadvmodcasedetoblmarkfixednsubjadvcladvmodxcomppunctrootButCCONJwhenADVhePRONgotVERBoverADPtheDETboatNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwantedVERBtoPARTpounceVERBuponADPthemPRONandCCONJcarryVERBoffADPtheDETprincessNOUN,PUNCTtheDEThuntsmanNOUNtookVERBupADPhisPRONbowNOUNandCCONJshotVERBhimPRONstraightADVthroughADPtheDETheartNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONfellVERBdownADVdeadADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_10 wantedcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int4 gotadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gotnsubj
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wantedadvcl
5overoverADP_7 boatcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 boatdet
7boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing4 gotobl
8,,PUNCT_10 wantedpunct
9andandCCONJ_10 wantedcc
10wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11totoPART_12 pouncemark
12pouncepounceVERBVerbForm=Inf10 wantedxcomp
13uponuponADP_14 themcase
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 pounceobl
15andandCCONJ_16 carrycc
16carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf12 pounceconj
17offoffADP_16 carrycompound:prt
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 princessdet
19princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing16 carryobj
20,,PUNCT_23 tookpunct
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 huntsmandet
22huntsmanhuntsmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 tooknsubj
23tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wantedparataxis
24upupADP_23 tookcompound:prt
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 bownmod:poss
26bowbowNOUNNumber=Sing23 tookobj
27andandCCONJ_28 shotcc
28shotshootVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 tookconj
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 shotobj
30straightstraightADV_33 heartadvmod
31throughthroughADP_33 heartcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 heartdet
33heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing28 shotobl
34sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ37 fellmark
35thatthatSCONJ_34 sofixed
36hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 fellnsubj
37fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 shotadvcl
38downdownADV_37 felladvmod
39deaddeadADJDegree=Pos37 fellxcomp
40..PUNCT_10 wantedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastbeastthe boatvn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over boat=Destination
2wantpastvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3pounce not said to happento-infinitiveupon brothers = brothervn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory
4carry offinfinitivethe princessvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
5take uppastthe huntsmanbeast's bowvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
6shootpastthe huntsman not said herebeastthe heartvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme through heart=Destination
7fall downpastbeastdead, down propertyvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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